>From: "Todd Moody"
> > The assertion that calories don't matter is irresponsible
> > and completely without scientific support.  While it is true that
> > cutting calories beyond a certain point may actually slow weight
> > loss, by causing metabolic downshifting, it is also true that
> > eating too many calories will cause fat loss to stall, by giving
> > the body no good reason to deplete its fat stores.
>
> > Todd Moody
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When I said a few of the books I've read (if I remember correctly, Atkins
and Audette) made me think counting calories would not be necessary on their
diets, I don't think they were saying that calories don't matter. I think
they were perhaps just saying that once you are eating the food your body
needs rather than empty processed food, you don't overeat. Not sure. I do
remember Audette saying counting calories would be a thing of the past, for
whatever reason. I'd have to read those sections again before any poor
author gets labeled irresponsible.